Stiffening device for garments.



M. M. MQDERMOTT.

STIFFFNINBDEVICE FOR GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11, 1911.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

amoewloz M M M Dermott 8 Hozmua UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL M. MODERMOT'I, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

STIFFENING DEVICE FOR GARMENTS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL M. MODER- MOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements. in stiffening Devices for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stiffening devices for garments and particularly to coat linlngs.

The object of the invention is to provide a flexible stiffening device having the required elasticity to normally retain the garment in its original shape.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings the figure illustrates a perspective view of a garment partially broken away showing the invention applied thereto.

Referring more specifically to the drawings in which like reference characters refer to corresponding parts 5 designates a coat having a stiffening device 6 stitched or otherwise suit-ably attached as at 7 to the inner face of the cloth. This stiffening device 6 comprises a suitably shaped piece of canvas 8 having secured thereto a plurality of wires 10 and 10 or other flexible members adapted by virtue of their own resiliency to normally Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 11, 1911.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912. Serial No. 637,856.

maintain the canvas in a perfectly smooth condition. These spring wires 10 and 10 are bent to form a plurality of spring arms 12 which exert a resilient pressure in a lateral or longitudinal direction according to their location with respect to the canvas 8. In the embodiment illustrated, the arms of wire 10 exert resiliency in a longitudinal direction and the arms of wire 10 are resilient in a perpendicular direction. By this construction the original set of the garment 5 is normally maintained and in fact it is almost impossible to permanently crush the portion of the garment to which the invention is aplied.

p Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim is:

A stiifening device for garments, comprising a strip of canvas having a number of oppositely curved spring steel members, each of said members being bent to form a central loop and two spring arms, the armsand loop of one member being resilient in a lateral direction and the arms and loop of the other member being resilient in a longitudinal direction.

In testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL M. MCDERMOTT.

Witnesses:

SMITH F. GARDINER, GEO. MOLAUGHLIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

